Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Okay. One then gets a new NPF, the second one from 2030 onwards but it would not be the 2032 census but it would be the 2037 census then which would trigger the review under this provision of the second NPF. Is that correct? That just seems like a very long interval and, sure, anybody can do a review at any stage, but the Minister of State has an explicit provision in the Bill requiring a review following the second occurrence of the census within the lifetime of the NPF. It just seems an incredibly long time as I would have just thought that every census should automatically trigger a review within the quickest period of time to ensure that the NPF was kept up-to-date with those figures.
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